Reminder: Meeting today 4pm TechSpace Bend – Bend Broadband’s Green Data Center

Date: August 12 (Thursday)

Topic: Enterprise-Class Green “Vault” Data Centers (Bend Broadband)

Location: TechSpace Bend (906 Harriman – Old Cigar Building – Across from Blacksmith) Time: 4pm

- Keenan Hall

The first meeting will be Thursday August 12th and split across two topics – Bend Broadband’s new Green Data center (Part 1) and new developments in the Open Source Arena (Part 2). Bend Broadband will have their Data Center consultant present to talk about the DC and to field questions – design, build and what makes a green data center. In Part 2, Mark Turner will be presenting on some new developments in the Open Source arena. This is a new “special topics” format to be hosted at TechSpace Bend.

Date:August 12 (Thursday)
Topic: Part 1: Enterprise-Class Green “Vault” Data Centers (Bend Broadband) – Part 2: Open Source Developments
Location: TechSpace Bend (906 Harriman – Old Cigar Building – Across from Blacksmith)
Time: 4pm

Results are in! The second meeting is on Desktop Virtualization and hosted by Structured. Structured is on top of their game in Desktop Virtualization and will have an expert onsite to dig deep into this topic. This will be the traditional format hosted at McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room – lunch, giveaways etc.

Date: September 10th
Topic:Desktop Virtualization
Location: McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room
Time: 1pm
- Lunch and giveaways

The October meeting is still in the planning stages – look for a topic survey soon.

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Thanks,
Lewis Howell
- COISUG

We are very excited about our next COISUG  meeting on March 30th, 12:30PM – 2:30/3:30 – McMenamins Rambler Room. Once a year, we pickup a SharePoint related meeting and this year we have the worldwide experts on the subject: Joel Olson and Christian Buckley. Come get a glimpse into SharePoint 2010 and how SharePoint is changing the corporate landscape.

“Planning your Social SharePoint 2010 Deployment”

One of the most compelling reasons to move to SharePoint 2010 is the native support for social media – but what does this really mean for your company? How will this upgrade impact current deployments and custom integrations? How do the social media features that user’s are asking for map to the features available in 2010? In this session, Joel and Christian will discuss what is coming in SharePoint 2010, outline the benefits and implications of these social media features, and provide a strategy for how you can meet-or-beat user expectations.

Bios

Joel Oleson

Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest, where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups.

Christian Buckley

Christian is a senior product manager at echoTechnology, where he responsible for content, strategy, and evangelism. Prior to echo, Christian worked with Joel at Microsoft in BPOS-D (Business Productivity Online Services-Dedicated). He also led product management and deployment teams in the creation of product lifecycle management and supply chain-integration solutions for some of the world’s largest manufacturing and telecommunications companies, and co-authored 3 books on software configuration management and defect tracking.

Event name: Bend SharePoint User Group Meeting – March 2010

Time period: This Friday, 05 March 2010 11:30 till 05 March 2010 13:00 (GMT -8)

Location: 1125 NW Bond – BOTC Training Room – Entrance is on Greenwood *Please use City/Street Parking*. Bend. United States.

Description: BOTC will be presenting their cool, exclusively SharePoint Intranet, Active Directory org chart functionality and how they replaced their Excel Phone Directory! Prizes and lunch will be provided. BOTC has also offered to host the next meeting since they will be demonstrating off their corporate network and showing corporate data. 1125 NW Bond – BOTC Training Room – Entrance is on Greenwood, Across the street from Decoy Bar & Grill. *Please Do Not Use BOTC Parking Lot(s), use City/Street Parking* You can see the entrance doors here: http://goo.gl/3fFV

The event will take place at McMenamins, Rambler room this Thursday February 18th @ 1:30pm. As always, a late lunch will be provided and there will be giveaways.

Enterasys Agenda:

• State of the Industry – trends and innovation
• Network/Wireless/Security Architecture Strategies – best practices
• How to improve visibility and control
• Strategies for reducing Operational Expenses – doing more for less

Lunch and giveaways – spread the word, and thank you for your support!

Enterasys Networks, a leading provider of network hardware and software, from the core out to the edge, will be out next week to give us a Network Infrastructure state of the union. This is a great opportunity to get insight into new trends and the future of network hardware and software. The event will take place at McMenamins, Rambler room on Thursday February 18th @ 1:30pm. As always, a late lunch will be provided and there will be giveaways.

Enterasys Agenda:

• State of the Industry – trends and innovation
• Network/Wireless/Security Architecture Strategies – best practices
• How to improve visibility and control
• Strategies for reducing Operational Expenses – doing more for less

Lunch and giveaways – spread the word, and thank you for your support!